We all know that moving, standing and exercise are important, if not essential. But food is part of the equation too. Maybe even more so than the others. Would be cool if there was a 4th ring that tied into My Fitness Pal or similar apps, showing calories consumed.

I know there will be, if not already, a calorie complication. But linking into the ring metaphor would be cool too.

LoseIt is what I used to drop my first thirty pounds. Its complication shows how many calories you've got remaining in your daily budget. It shows digits, not a ring, and I don't think a ring would be best for how it works.

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I used an OS X App called Calories (Now Calories 3) for about 6 years without missing a beat. I now use MyFitnessPal and love it.

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That's awesome, I'm just relaying my personal experience with them. I find that I'll use it for a while then my usages trails off. When you have manually put your entries in, then you're relying on the person to be consistent. Some will, I have no doubt, many will not.

I hope Apple solves for this some day. It is a major gap in the device's ecosystem as a true activity & health utility. Every other activity tracking device on the market has a surrounding app environment that either lets you record calories directly, or they integrate with another well-known tool that does calorie tracking.

When I am in focus mode for training, I use calorie counting to manage to a target weight while training. Fitbit has served me very well for years. AW cannot play in that space yet.

I doubt Apple will get into the calorie diary game... They built the platform and other players are already pretty good at it- my fitness pal / loose it etc.

The current gap is that these apps are only partially synced up with the watch's calorie counts. They adjust for steps taken and workouts- but the overall total can be off by a decent amount. I get this in os1 as the watch had crazy resting calories... But now that this has been corrected I would anticipate that these apps will be updated and sync right up.

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